Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:01:10 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Tom <tsasser@terra.cl>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multimedia and browsers on freebsd Message-ID: <200304241101.10971.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl> References: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl>
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On Thursday 24 April 2003 10:51 am, Tom wrote: > hi all, > > what has been your experience getting *any* browser to work with: > > java > video > audio > flash > and all the other goodies I don't use a browser for it's "goodies", but to browse content. But I have gotten some of the stuff to work in Konqueror. Java is easy. Install java then point Konqueror to it. Audio works "out-of-the-box" in Konqueror for all *standard* formats. Quicktime won't work so don't try. Flash will work with Mozilla but not Konqueror, if you install the flashpluginwrapper. A future Konqueror should handle it as well according to some rumours. The plugger port will allow a few other things to work as well. Why don't these "goodies" work very well with FreeBSD (and Linux)? Because most of these "goodies" are proprietary non-standard protocols. In my opinion, life is too short to waste time on many of these. But things are changing. Software is still a very young industry. As with all young industries, standards are slow to arrive. Consider the early railroad industry, which had a bewildering variety of incompatible track gauges. Eventually they settled on a standard. Software will do the same, and IS doing the same, but it will take some time. David
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